It seems that worry has become a normal state of affairs for many, if not most, people. One only needs to turn on the television to witness conflict, aggression, lack of civil discourse, violence, death, and destruction. Repeated exposure leaves some people feeling numb and desensitized, while ...Views: 78

Social Anxiety No Friends: Making Friends with Anxiety - I Want Friends but I Have Social Anxiety
Social Anxiety phobia, or social anxiety, is one of the most prevalent psychological problems in the world today. It ranks only behind alcohol problems and depression, meaning that millions ...Views: 209

Interview Anxiety Attack: How to Get Rid Of Nerves before an Interview - Fear of Interviews Phobia
Job interviews are inherently stressful. Your livelihood depends on it, especially if you're currently "in between jobs." But you don't have to be at the mercy of your anxiety and stress ...Views: 193

How To Cure Agoraphobia Naturally: Treatment For Agoraphobia With Panic Disorder
Agoraphobia is the fear of open or public places, and can turn life into a waking nightmare. You are afraid to leave your house and you live in constant fear of the next panic attack. Your heart beats out of ...Views: 320

How Can I Overcome Social Anxiety Without Medication: How To Cope With Panic Attacks
After suffering for years with shyness and social anxiety, I finally found some simple tricks and techniques that helped me to overcome my problems. What follows are some of those tricks and techniques that ...Views: 195

How To Reduce Shyness While Speaking: How To Stay Calm In Social Situations
Social shyness is a problem that afflicts many. If you've ever felt nervous at parties, weddings, or similar then you have some insight into just how difficult social shyness can be to come to terms with. Any ...Views: 148

I Am A Shy Person: How To Stop Being Shy And Nervous
How often has "overcome my shyness" been your mantra after an unhappy night out, difficult social occasion or unsuccessful job interview? It's always easy to have that urge right after something painful has happened, but it's much more of a ...Views: 221

How To Be Less Introverted: How To Overcome Timidity
Learning to be less self conscious is not easy. While logic is telling you that not everyone can possibly be starting at you or focusing on you at a party, social event, or even at work, the mind thumps away the message they are making it ...Views: 117

I Hate Being Shy: How To Overcome Introversion
A cure for shyness would be welcomed by millions, with shyness and social anxiety a prevalent psychological problem. In fact, social anxiety is now regarded as one of the most common disorders in need of treatment. The crushing feelings of ...Views: 132

Why Am I So Shy: How To Eliminate Shyness
Being shy can be a real worry for most people. Sometimes shyness can be a self fulfilling prophecy, where people are so uncomfortable at parties or other events that they don't go out, or actively avoid others company. This is clearly a damaging ...Views: 116

How To Be Less Shy: How To Remove Shyness And Fear
Overcoming shyness and social phobia is not easy. If you are going to try and lift the shackles it will require some dedication, persistence and thinking. Social anxiety can rear it's ugly head at parties or other social occasions, when ...Views: 127

How To Deal With Shyness: How To Stop Being Self Conscious And Shy
Overcoming shyness and building self-confidence are two sides of the same coin. If you want to be successful at tackling shyness and unlocking yourself from the barriers it causes then there are some things you can do and it ...Views: 152

The Solution To Social Anxiety: How To Overcome Shyness When Meeting New People
If you want to deal with social anxiety self help is one of the options to you. There are literally thousands of sufferers out there, with around 10% of people thought to suffer with some form of social phobia - ...Views: 125

How To Combat Social Anxiety: How To Avoid Being Shy
If you are trying to beat social anxiety, you are not alone. While it's very easy to think, and feel, that no one else understands the problem, then you'd be surprised. It's thought around 10% of people suffer some form of social phobia. ...Views: 116

How To Manage Social Anxiety: How To Overcome Hesitation And Shyness
When you are looking to overcome social phobia it can seem an absolute mountain to climb. The painful and almost crippling feelings of nerves and tension, or physical problems like sweating, blushing or trembling make ...Views: 240

How To Fix Social Anxiety: How To Overcome Social Fear
Social Anxiety shyness and social phobia are a problem that affects thousands of people. There are a number of strategies that can be used to either try and cure these phobias or at least, limit the effects so those suffering from social ...Views: 101

How To Get Over Being Shy: How To Overcome Being Timid
Shyness happens when we become overly self conscious about ourselves. To stop shyness, it is important to understand that low self esteem has a close relationship with shyness. The lower your self esteem, the more shy you'll be. So if you ...Views: 128

How To Develop Self Confidence: How To Overcome Public Anxiety
In order to build more confidence, here are some little things you can do to give help you start out. First of all, you never want to think too much about what other people are thinking. Doing this will only make you more self ...Views: 165

How To Remove Shyness And Nervousness: How To Become Confident And Not Shy
Do you ever go through the day with the feeling of wanting to talk to someone but then having a certain feeling hold you back? What about just being able to openly express your views to the public without a feeling ...Views: 135

How To Stop Being Shy And Quiet: How To Overcome Shyness Book
While social anxiety and isolation are painful for those who suffer from it, it is important to make a distinction between shyness, and simply having a quiet disposition-especially in children and teenagers. Because mislabeling ...Views: 198

How To Overcome Social Awkwardness: How To Do Away With Shyness
Shyness has been looked down upon in our culture. To be shy is equivalent to being publicly incapacitated. But is it true that all shy people suffer from social anxiety? The answer is simply no. Some people are withdrawn and ...Views: 162

How To Overcome Social Phobia: How To Overcome Social Anxiety On Your Own
Have you ever worried that a minor public gaffe would forever ruin your reputation?
The following should be very comforting:
In 2000, Social Psychologists Thomas Gilovich, Kenneth Savitsky, Victoria Husted Medvec ...Views: 103

How To Get Rid Of Shyness: Ways To Overcome Shyness And Gain Confidence
Being an active volunteer in your community can help you get rid of shyness. If you are a shy person, chances are you don't put yourself in leadership roles or join new groups often. Ironically, that is something that ...Views: 147

Overcoming Fear of Death Anxiety: How to Stop Thinking About Death and Dying
When you suffer from any form of severe panic and anxiety, there will always be a handful of unpleasant anxiety attack symptoms that are associated with it.
It's pretty much unavoidable.
One of the worst ...Views: 743

How To Avoid Anxiety Attacks When Flying: How To Stop Panic Attacks While Flying
Have a fear of flying? You've landed at the right place. Here, you'll discover lots of tips on how to avoid anxiety attacks while flying, and all without the use of drugs.
The fear of flying is very common. ...Views: 253

How To Overcome Fear Of Driving: Ways To Conquer Driving Anxiety
Driving anxiety is a very common form of anxiety disorder. When a person is inflicted with an anxiety disorder, one place his/her anxiety usually seems to come out is when he/she is driving. Even in cases where a person rarely ...Views: 145

Having A Panic Attack Right Now: How To Come Down From An Anxiety Attack
If you're trying to treat panic disorder at the moment, then I know how tough that is. I lived with the same problems for many years, going right back to my childhood. And one of the things I discovered during my long ...Views: 164

How To Stop Anxiety Attacks At Night: Nocturnal Panic Attacks
Have you ever heard the phrase "nocturnal panic attacks" before?
Probably not.
I know that I hadn't, even though I'd lived with severe panic and anxiety for over 17 years.
But even though I wasn't familiar with the term ...Views: 159

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I was looking at the articles on your website and I really liked a lot of things that you have to say about dealing with life, ourselves,others, and the interaction of all three. I am contacting you in hopes that you might be able to provide me with some advice or lead me ...Views: 221

Depression is a complicated issue to get a handle on. As a parent you want your child to only experience the good things in life. But when they are depressed you may feel helpless and unsure of what you can do to help. With 3.3 million people experiencing long term depression (lasting two or ...Views: 332

We all are afraid of something. Girls usually faint when they see a small mouse or even smaller spider. Even the bravest man can become nervous when sees a huge, but not poisonous python or tint venomous elapid snake. One can suffer from a broken wind during the flight; the other one feels ...Views: 366

Driving Fear Program developed by Cheryl Lane and Rich Presta is a new program that provides people with books, audios, videos, and detailed instructions on how to control their fear of driving. This program also introduces to people innovative driving phobia treatments, simple exercises, ...Views: 209

How To Overcoming Anxiety
Hypnosis can help you to overcome your anxiety as being anxious is a trance like state whereby you are almost taken over by your own thoughts and worries.
Birmingham, West Midlands based Debbie Williams - who is a fully qualified and licensed trainer of NLP and ...Views: 371

Do any of the following situations sound familiar? You are driving in congested traffic and have to come to a sudden stop as a careless driver cuts right in front of you. All of a sudden, you are finding it difficult to breathe and you feel trapped in your own car. You are engaged in a ...Do ...Views: 963

A phobia is an over-the-top fear of a particular thing and is the most common form of what is called an anxiety disorder. Faced with the object of fear, the phobic experiences feelings ranging from mild fear to absolute terror. A pounding heart, wet palms, shaking arms, wobbly legs, and nausea ...Views: 726

A phobia can be a source of terror, amusement, and embarrassment. Sometimes all three at once, even to the phobic themselves.
Phobias range from the ridiculous to the downright dangerous. At the lighter end of the scale, there is the fear of bananas. And we all know someone who travels ...Views: 889

A phobia is an over-the-top fear of a particular thing and is the most common form of what is called an anxiety disorder. Faced with the object of fear, the phobic experiences feelings ranging from mild fear to absolute terror. A pounding heart, wet palms, shaking arms, wobbly legs, and nausea ...Views: 2219

While I define "commitment phobia" as "an unrealistic fear of making a promise, a pledge or a vow to be a faithful and loyal partner to another person," many singles may also fear that becoming a committed couple means giving up, or losing, their independence.
It's not uncommon for singles ...Views: 5493

I remember a friend in college who would blush, sweat, and tremble when required by a teacher to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he’d be anxious, agitated, and couldn’t sleep. Because I was still a student then, I didn’t have any clue what he was going through. But I knew ...Views: 726

I remember a friend in college who would blush, sweat, and tremble when required by a teacher to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he’d be anxious, agitated, and couldn’t sleep. Because I was still a student then, I didn’t have any clue what he was going through. But I knew ...Views: 726

I remember a friend in college who would blush, sweat, and tremble when required by a teacher to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he’d be anxious, agitated, and couldn’t sleep. Because I was still a student then, I didn’t have any clue what he was going through. But I knew ...Views: 726